Minister: Arrested officials are professionals
The investigation into the case of arrest of officials of Health Ministry is underway; for already two years the Investigative Committee has been engaged in that case, said Minister of Healthcare Armen Muradyan after the Government session and reminded that the case is connected with vacation packages. He reminded that the Ministry suspected violations connected with vacation packages still in 2014. “When that issue came to the agenda, we applied to the law enforcement bodies and a relevant case was instituted.” At the moment the officials of the Ministry of Healthcare were released with a written cognizance not to leave the country. Armen Muradyan described them as professionals, “I am sure that no innocent person will be punished. Still we don’t have any mediation to dismiss them or to stop their powers, if we have such a mediation, we will reply to it,” said the Minister. The Minister didn’t answer for which resort zones those vacation packages were, urging to clarify it from the investigative body. He also had difficulty in answering how much money the Ministry lost as a result of that false deals.
